06/03/2023
Boom and the Legacy of Sailing in the Persian Gulf
The traditional Iranian sailboats called Boom used to dominate the waters from the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea to the Tigris and Indian Ocean to the Eden Gulf. These boats were made by joining large panels of the Indian Sai tree together using nails and nuts, and were used by merchants, pearl hunters, fishers, and Persian military troops for centuries. Booms are a type of traditional large boat called "Lenj" or "Launch", which move with the help of wide white sailings and are made entirely by hand by the skilled inhabitants of southern Iran.
Once, construction workshops were scattered along the northern coastlines of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, with Qeshm, Gang Port, Gouran, and Reeg being the main workshops of this old craft. The UNESCO inscribed the ancestral knowledge of seafaring and traditional skills of building Iranian Lenj boats in the Persian Gulf as an intangible heritage in 2011.
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📷 Saeed Anvari
